Interesting list with a more specific slanthttps://rateyourmusic.com/list/sounds_of_decay/musette-and-drums-ethereal-gothic-rock/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
https://fashionbird.bandcamp.com/album/phanerothymesLisa Hammer (I thought she had retired that name?) is on "Hunted (Werewolves Of The Astral Plane)" and maybe some other tracks and it sounds good. It's not very gothy but I'm liking their stuff.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 29 January 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link
Idylls by Love Spirals Downwards continues to be a classic album start to finish
― so tonight that I might ramona quimby (f. hazel), Thursday, 11 March 2021 03:16 (three years ago) link
Yup.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 March 2021 03:37 (three years ago) link
in other goth news, Dark Entries is reissuing Clan of Xymox's Peel Sessions EP on vinyl and digital in a few days:
https://xymox.bandcamp.com/album/peel-sessions
Contains an amazing version of Seventh Time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN-__3hnUys
― so tonight that I might ramona quimby (f. hazel), Thursday, 11 March 2021 05:11 (three years ago) link
I guess having a new singer prompted a different band name?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouq-r8hXr-Ehttps://trancetothemoon.bandcamp.com/releases
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 17 July 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
This thread is a great resource!
Cocteau heads have to hunt down Heavenly Bodies with Carolyn Seaman from This Mortal Coil...pretty essential for completists, plus it ROCKS.
Someone stole my copy years ago, so I swiped it back via soulseek.
I prefer the folk / rhythmic aspect of this music and don't much care for classical influences and am looking for suggestions on Irish / Scottish folk that uses electronics or has a more ethereal sound. Also looking for ethereal bands who use funky folk rhythms like bel canto does.
But I'm gonna queue some of this today because I have a headache.
― Night of Olay: The Resurrection (I M Losted), Monday, 6 December 2021 12:42 (two years ago) link
CaroLINE Seaman, I mean. The one who sings on the 2nd TMC album.
― Night of Olay: The Resurrection (I M Losted), Monday, 6 December 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
Ha, I think I have that around...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 December 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
Yeah the heavenly bodies album is worth seeking out
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 December 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
And I'll say another time that Lisa Hammer's Dakini is amazing
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 December 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
Looks like it's streaming on Apple Music at least
https://music.apple.com/us/album/celestial/1571240546
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 December 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
Are those sound effects, or is this Apple Music version a somewhat noisy vinyl rip (listening to the opening of "An Obsession" at the moment)?
― early rejecter, Monday, 6 December 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
Just want to say how much this thread has helped. Really enjoying Trance to the Sun right now...love the heavy murk guitars...reminds me of when I first head-banged to Garlands or Head Over Heels all those years ago.
― Night of Olay: The Resurrection (I M Losted), Monday, 6 December 2021 22:12 (two years ago) link
They're amazing, the run of releases from Venomous Eve to Atrocious Virgin is incredible. I often think Delirious might be my favorite because they way it escalates is brilliant.
I still haven't given their last album the proper listens.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 01:18 (two years ago) link
Breathless have a new album in july. I still only have Chasing Promises
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
There's lots to check out!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 18:02 (two years ago) link
Been reading Facing The Other Way and I'm very pleased that Nooten and Brook's Sleeps With Fishes gets its due. Looking at the RYM reviews I wonder how many people discovered it through the book. A real shame Nooten and Brook didn't keep it going but I still have a bunch of Nooten era Xymox and all his solo albums to get. And of course there's so much Brook.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 June 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
I wish 4AD had been better with reissues in the last 20 years, surely there's enough incentive to reissue more of its B and C-list bands?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 June 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
Well, last 20 years as you said, ie the collapse of the industry and people trying to feel their way forward. The incentives are low.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 June 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
At least everything I've looked for is available on digital (though I get CDs every time I can) but I wish other labels who still reissue all kinds of obscurities could get a hold of the rights or 4AD do those cheapie box sets (5 Classic/Original Albums).
There's been compilations of Lush, Colourbox, Rema-Rema and In Camera and some of them were limited editions. 4AD kept hold of everything, so I guess it's very unlikely the rights are going to shift companies.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 June 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
Fairly sure more Lush reissues could have been successful
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 June 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
the pale saints reissue was well regarded, but they didn't repeat it with In Ribbons (30th anniversary was in march)
― koogs, Saturday, 4 June 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
I'd be particularly grateful for reissues of Pale Saints, Xymox, Xmal Deutschland, Dif Juz and Wolfgang Press
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 June 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
nothing to add, just a thanks to RAG. dif juz mention has me revisiting for the first time in about 2 decades. i only ever heard extractions, so now that soundpool is on streaming i'm even hearing stuff for the first time ever. great way to spend a saturday afternoon.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Saturday, 4 June 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
I'm surprised I haven't talked about Scarlet Slipping's Fire In The Mist yet, it was a favorite at the start of covid. Dawn Wagner was great in Trance To The Sun (she was only on Delirious) and Scarlet Slipping was her own thing. Of course the common complaint in this thread is that the music often doesn't have a unique enough identity and I don't think that's a problem with Scarlet Slipping. Some tracks make me think of dark humid jungles and like Delirious, it's kind of dancey. I strongly recommend this album, she seems to have flown completely under the radar and has 5 albums, only 2 are easy enough to find.
Just downloaded the next album Hound and sounds good so far.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:09 (one year ago) link
Actually she done some other Trance To The Sun stuff but Delirious was the only full album.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
I was just talking with my friend about this album last Thursday on our way to the Spoon show in Hollywood. I need to dig out that album again as it has been a minute. 30 years has flown by...
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
Scarlet Slipping's bio mentions a celtic influence, I don't really hear it
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
in ribbons is one of my favorite albums of the 90s, you really should dig it out, bee!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
I do need to, whenever I'm in the mood for Pale Saints I seem to reach for The Comforts of Madness but next time I will play In Ribbons as you and my friend suggested.
I also went over my ticket stubs recently and saw that I did get to see them live in Los Angeles. Truthfully, I can't remember that show as I was going to shows left and right in the early 90s.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 23:39 (one year ago) link
I saw them in LA in 1992 the night they opened for Ride; Slowdive opened the other night, went to both shows. Missed the PS headlining at the Roxy IIRC, and the openers were Red House Painters, who had just been signed. (Maybe I'm not sad I missed that after where Kozelek ended up.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:03 (one year ago) link
The 4AD Xymox albums got nice CD reissues in the 90s and the deluxe edition of Twist of Shadows from a few years ago is also very good... all you need really. Subsequent Pleasures and the Peel Sessions are also readily available digitally. Wouldn't mind a deluxe reissue of Phoenix, it had a handful of solid b-sides (Twisted, Dreamhouse, Down to Earth).
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Thursday, 9 June 2022 02:43 (one year ago) link
Just came across the footnote that Nooten, Brook and Heidi Berry were going to make something together but practical reasons prevented it, heartbreaking.
Been looking through so many 90s band discographies and its so daunting thinking about getting the bsides and loose ends if I feel compelled to, I had totally forgotten about the ridiculous trend of copious bullshit remixes. I thought that bsides/rarities collections were mostly a thing of the past (I miss them) but Belly released one last year.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
Although I'm a CDs guy I think getting bsides on digital will keep me saner and my collection prettier
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
belly, boo Radleys, lush all remind me of that period of British chart history when 3 formats were eligible for chart sales so they'd always release 2cd singles and a 7", all with different b sides. and for the first week, in order to maximize entry position, they be sold cheaply. so for every a-side you'd effectively get 4 or 5 b-sides.
― koogs, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
It was a real pain in the ass
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
Been thinking of arranging my discs alphabetically someday because boxing them by genre is getting impractical, but I recently opened my very broadly defined goth box and I got an amazing waft of Projekt smell. Sam Rosenthal has said he chooses paper that smells nice and I got a heady dose of that.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 18:14 (ten months ago) link
There is a definite quality there!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 19:06 (ten months ago) link
BTW, the new remaster of Area's Radio Caroline is pay-what-you-want right now: https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/radio-caroline-2023-remaster
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 July 2023 04:18 (ten months ago) link
Theyre my era and style pref, yet I don’t recall them, and now I am enjoying them. The vibe of Transmitter is so spot on for me today.
― rick james, critical moralist (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 17:15 (nine months ago) link
I didn't know of them either, but I was a moderate fan of The Moon Seven Times which was Lynn Canfield and Henry Frayne's post-Area band.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 08:22 (nine months ago) link
in champaign urbana no one can hear u scream. jk, know nothing of it. zines rekkid stores cassettes and wordamouth. they all tried i spose haboy are the keys settings hit or miss on this, to my (tin) ears tho
― rick james, critical moralist (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 16:49 (nine months ago) link